Re:Why 56k is the fastest dial up modem speed
by queuebert on Saturday November 25, 2023 @12:28PM
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Isn't Morse code technically a digital signal, albeit with an extremely low bit rate?
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Re:Why 56k is the fastest dial up modem speed
by dreamcompiler on Saturday November 25, 2023 @02:18PM
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Yes. It's sloppy PWM with a non-ASCII character code. It's optimized for human encoding/decoding rather than machine; the pulse widths are not globally uniform like they would be in a machine-oriented code, which is what I mean by "sloppy."